Truffled Cream of Mushroom and Cauliflower Soup

A 5:2 Diet Staple and Cream of Mushroom Soup Recipe:

Some time ago I tried making cauliflower cream. The idea is to create something that has all the consistency of cream but none of the fat content or calories. Or at least, FAR fewer calories.

Blitzing an entire cauliflower actually makes rather too much for one person, but cauliflower cream freezes well and will keep in the fridge for about a week. You can use it as a pasta sauce with a good helping of parmesan and some bacon, chicken or mushrooms if you like.

And, as a base for a cream soup it is light and yet creamy. Really quite luscious and almost impossible to ‘split’

I bought my cauliflower and was planning to make cauliflower cheese. But, Christmas intervened and I was left needing a quick use for a whole cauliflower. Cauliflower cream gave me four portions – two to freeze, one to enjoy with pasta and mushrooms and one to experiment with.

Directions

Break the cauliflower into florets and put into a high speed mixer like a froothie with the milk

Step 4

Blitz on a medium speed for 5 minutes or so

Step 5

Add the onions, garlic and melted butter and continue to blitz till perfectly smooth. Add more milk if necessary till you have something the consistency of double cream.

Step 6

Add salt and pepper to taste and continue to blitz till piping hot.

The pasta dish was nice but not quite perfect yet. But the truffled cream of mushroom and cauliflower soup was really wonderful. So for now, here’s how to use a quarter of your cauliflower cream to make a delicious soup that is NEARLY suitable for the 5:2 diet.

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Comments

This is a fantastic idea! I’m going to have to try this, creamy recipes are always a huge temptation for me and truffle is one of my favourite flavours so a (relatively) guilt free recipe that combines these two is too good to be true! Thank you! xxx
Lucy

Ooh yes, I like this idea. I don’t have the requisite blender, but I guess I could cook the cauliflower first. I’m rather liking the idea of this as a pasta sauce with mushrooms, although your soup looks jolly delicious.

Mmmm, it looks perfect and something I could happily indulge in. Funnily enough one of my foodie goals this year is to try truffles, I keep seeing them and the oil pop up on my favourite blogs but have never tried either.
Wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015 Fiona.
Janie x

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